Summer Assignment Entry Four

The reason for choosing this particular novel of the choices from on the list would had to be because of it genera. The main reason would had to have be that there weren’t actually any other book in the list that was of this genera. So the reason for being drawn to this book is that it was fiction and because it is an action thriller book so the possibilities for thing to happen when you first reading it is endless. So that is why those kind of book get my attention also hoe since it is a thriller it can have a lot of parts that will just leave you hanging and sometimes make you a little exited to read on. There weren’t any real personal connections that I had with the book after reading it. If I were to recommend this book to anyone it would be a person that is into action thriller books because of how the book has some sense in it that are either vary suspenseful do to the thriller aspect. Also do to those parts with the violins or a little gore or violins in it do to the action part of the book.           

Summer Assignment Entry Three

A section of my book in the Ship Breaker that I thought was the most interesting in the book was at the beginning. It was at either the part when Nailer almost died in the oil tanker by drowning in oil or at the part where Nailer first met Nita. I personally thought the best part was when Nailer first met Nita on the clipper ship. It happened a few days after Nailer almost died in the oil tanker, the problem was that what happened was that there was a treble storm that lasted two days and two night. Everything on the beach was destroyed; people’s body’s all along the beach and in the tree line. Then after the storm had pasted Nailer and Pima who was a good friend to Nailer searched the coastline searching for something of value came across the thing they least expected to ever find, it was a clipper ship. When Nailer and Pima searched the ship for anything of value they came across a girl that they thought to be dead but found she was still breathing when they tried to take the Jules off of her. Prim wanted to kill her fearing that if they help her she would take everything that they got from the ship because it was owned by her. But Nailer wanted to save her in doing so Nita would repay them but he also had doubt that she would just leave them the first chants she got. But as Nailer was staring into the droning girl’s eyes, they might as well have been his own.              

Summer Assignment Entry Two

For the complexity of the characters, each one of them wants a better life but each in a very different way. The thing that Bapi want or desires is to be rich so he doesn’t have to work. For Nailer he wants a life of no worries, one that he can call his own and be able to do what he wants. For Moon Girl, Tick-tock and Prima they won’t essentially the same thing that Nailer wants which is to have a life in where a person doesn’t have to be worked to the bone everyday just to survive. For Nailer’s farther, the thing he wants the most is just to get his hands on another drink to “waste himself.” Sloth just wants to find a way to get by without dying in the process ever since she was kicked off the light-crew for leaving Nailer to die.  The theme of the book is loyalty, because it is presented almost immediately in the beginning of the story. Crew members must always have each other's backs, and take blood oaths to swear their allegiance to each other. Despite these oaths, which are desperately needed if one wants to survive life on the beach, loyalty can never be trusted until it's tested. As Nailer says, “there's a difference between crew members who have proved their loyalty for years breaking ships, and the crew who have just made their blood oath; their loyalty hasn't been tested yet.” Sloth proves his loyalty to Bapi by refusing to steal the first Lucky Strike - the oil pocket - from him. He is rewarded by the Fates with his life. Sloth, on the other hand, goes against her blood oath in the hopes of getting rich, and is rewarded.

Summer Assignment Entry One

The two main characters in Ship Breaker are Nailer and Nia. The book also has other character that are important, such as Bapi, Prima, Tick-tock, Moon Girl, Sloth and Nailer’s farther. All of these people are part of the light-crew with Nailer at the beginning of the book before he meets Nia. They also help Nailer by saving his life at one point and help with the decisions he will make throughout the book. The story takes place in America’s Gulf Coast region where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts and salvage. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring. One day after a horrific hurricane, Nailer discovers a clipper ship that is beached on the coast line with one survivor, Nia. Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it’s worth, or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life. I am predicting that Nailer will rescue Nia, the ships lone survivor and try to help here anyway he can. But I am not sure that Nailer is doing all of this just for his sake since he is not aware of who she actually is.

Catching Fire

Text Relationship

There are many things throughout the book Catching Fire that can be relatable to you the reader, to another text, and to the world itself. A text to text connection that can be related to Catching Fire is the book Divergent. I say this because in the same concept of this book, a young girl named Tris must undergo vigorous trials and hardships to stay alive because of here being a divergent. This means that if the people in charge hear about this they will probably kill her, just like the capital is trying to kill Katniss but trying to make it look like an accident. A text-to-self connection that I have with the book is how she feels about some of the choices that she has to make. Manley the choices she has to make are ones she regrets or doesn’t want to but has to, but I bet that everyone can relate to this. The book also deals with text-to-world, and the way it does that is that life just isn’t fare to people. Some live better than others and or worst then others. Like how Katniss is going through the hunger games again and in real life people die from lots of stuff like war, famine, disease, and natural disasters. It’s all just who draws the shortest straw will be the unlucky one in the situation. 

     

Characters Symbol

In the book Catching Fire each character has their own symbol to show or define who they are or what they do. For instants the symbol for Katniss (one of the main characters in the book) would be a mocking-jay pin. I chose to say this because before reaping day came Katniss got a pin from her grandmother that has been pasted down in her family for generations. Also the mocking-jay means a lot to her because it reminds her of Rue, a kid that she met in the Hunger Games and they looked out for each other but she died.

Another character with a symbol would be Peete (another main character of the book) which would have a symbol of an artistic piece of some sort. I say this because Peete has grown up living in a pastry shop/bread shop where he would always decorate any of the sweets. Also another reason is because ever sins after the Hunger Games Peete has been drawing and painting the memories and moments while he and Katniss where in the Hunger Games.